Ever since Rome decided to grab the mantle for itself in 1054 and mix politics with religion, patronage has played a role in the careers of priests, bishops, and cardinals. Of course, I am not naive to think politics and the lust for power was not present before the West broke from the East, but […]
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To many Catholic insiders, today’s news that US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington DC has been removed from public ministry comes as no surprise. For decades, many knew there were two sides to this prince of the church-Uncle Ted who sought young seminarians as bunkmates and sexual mates and the high powered
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Demon possession. That’s a new one. A Pasco pastor is defending himself against criminal sexual abuse allegations by claiming that the 17-year-old he stands accused of abusing had multiple personalities and is possessed by a demon. The Pasco County pastor is accused of raping a teenage parishioner at several locations in Pasco and Pinellas counties.
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Calling it calumny, the Pope angrily responded to questions about his defense of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up for a priest who abused children. The “show me proof” comment came just days after he was photographed praying and crying with the family members of priest abuse. Many Chileans are still furious at Francis’
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Child sex abuse is a major national problem. We know how it’s impacted the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts. What about Disney? Well, in 2014, CNN published an investigative report that was shocking. 35 Disney employees have been arrested since 2006 and accused of sex crimes involving children, trying to meet a minor for
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Hollywood and the Catholic Church? Really? Yes, it’s true. Hollywood could learn a few things from the Catholic Church in terms of how it handled or rather mishandled the priest abuse crisis. The same shit storm is coming Hollywood’s way and they are as prepared as the Catholic Church was at the beginning of the
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A 50-year-old Vatican diplomat priest is hiding in the Vatican. He is wanted on child pornography charges in the United States as well as Canada. Both countries have issued warrants for his arrest. When the US issued the warrant, he fled to the safe haven of the Vatican where he is immune and safe from
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Devout Catholics have always believed in the inviolability of the confessional. In spite of the sacrament changing names over the years-Confession to Sacrament of Penance to Sacrament of Reconciliation (sounds like a Tinker to Evers to Chance), the fact that a Catholic can enter a confessional and tell his/her sins to a priest with absolute
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Statutes of limitations, whether concerning a criminal or civil matter, are there to protect the defendant. In civil cases, they are legal boundaries that limit the time period in which someone can bring a claim against another person, company or legal entity. In criminal matters, they protect a prospective defendant from prosecutions that go beyond
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Paul Shanley will walk out of Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts this morning a relatively free man. Shanley was convicted in 2005 of rape and abuse of a child and has been in prison ever since. He was also a Catholic priest, ordained in 1960, who raped and sexually abused scores of young
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